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Ive finally got Fedora running smoothly and I must say I am very impressed with this distro, the first to recognise my sound card! I updated the up2date feature using yum, as i have read that the default up2date package doesnt work (and experienced first hand). Now the feature works perfectly and I updated everything it found had updates available including the kernel. Now when I boot up if i choose the new kernel the Xserver doesnt load and I just have access to the terminal, is there anything I have to do to the x86 config file? Or whats the problem?

Thanks for any suggestions

Edit: Oh and before I forget is there anyway of getting the text in Fedora as crisp/clear as windoze?

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Do you have an nVidia card?

If so, when you install a new kernel, it (by default, because these are generic kernels, remember) will not have the propriatary nVidia module installed.

Just re-run the nVidia .run executeable from runlevel 3 (text mode - No X), and it will recompile itself for you. You will be back to nVidia's driver, and all will be well.

Glad that yum does the trick for you. I know that *I* like it. :)

And there should be font smoothing available as an option. Are the edges 'jaggy', as in either full black or full white? Are they blended, but not very well, with grey tones not correct? Is this the same on different fonts, or are some fonts different than others?

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Thanks for the reply, I'll try what u said. Regarding the text - the charachters seem slightly blurred round the edges and dont have sharp edges. I have enabled sub-pixel rendering but it hasnt made them quite the way I would like them. Some fonts do have it worse than others, Nimbus Roman seems the worst. Do you want me to post a screen shot so you can see what I mean?

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Do you have a CRT or LCD for a monitor?

As far as I know, sub-pixel rendering is only for LCDs, as each "pixel" of data is exactly (and predictable) one "pixel" on the LCD.

That is, your screen will go RGBRGBRGBRGB

And when having a normally white background, with a 'smoothed' black text in the middle, it knows (in my example pattern above), that your middle RGB set looks like the following if unalaised:

RGBRGBRGB

with the underlined portion as black.

When it does full-pixel anti-alaising, it will dim the full RGB on each side.

With sub-pixel rendering, it dims the B sub-pixel that touches on the left, and the R sub-pixel that touches on the right. This gives the human eye a great improvement in apparent resolution used to 'smooth' the font or other object.

The result is something like this:

RGBRGBRGB

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yea whenever you upgrade the kernel you need to reinstall the nvidia drivers. that should fix your problem. however if you are running fedora core 2 test and 1 an dyou updated everything then you currently can not use any kernel in rawhide including 2.6.3 on up because they enabled the 4stacks option which improves performance but breaks current nvidia drivers. after fedora core 2 final ships then there should be a new nvidia release offering a fix for this issue.

Edit: I forgot to say you can compile your own custom kernel though with 4stacks turned off and it will work fine. Im running 2.6.6-rc2 and it works great for me.

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Im not using an LCD but the sub pixel rendering seemed to sharpen the text slightly, I only tried it because it works like cleartype in windows which gave me clean looking text. Got any other suggestions? BTW in Opera the text is worse than other apps.

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